Word: knights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles, one Charles Y. Knight, an almost mythical personage, inventor of the sleeve-valve motor, now wealthy, retired and 56, might have beamed again last fortnight with the pleasure of the prophet honored anew in his own country. John North Willys (Willys-Knight, Willys-Overland) had just returned, with his wife and daughter Virginia, from two months in Europe, where as usual he had mixed business with pleasure. Debarked at Manhattan, he had said...
...limited number of big, extra powerful and luxurious motor cars. To meet this demand I am bringing back to the Stearns Motor Co. in which I have a large interest, a proposition which will give it the exclusive sale in the U. S. of a new Daimler-Knight sleeve-valve motor of 180 horsepower, the most powerful stock car ever built...
Daimler of England was the first motor car to use the sleeve-valve method of regulating gasoline motor intake and exhaust, the principles of which Charles Y. Knight had worked...
This Knox annoyed Mr. Knight with the noise its poppet valves made. He tinkered with it; thought; devised the sleeve-valve principle...
...Inventor Knight, prophet outcast at home, went to England, where the Daimler company of Coventry, was "sold" on the new motor. This was in 1908. Since then the Knight motor has become prized equipment for the Mercedes in Germany, the Panhard, Peugeot and Voisin in France, the Minerva in Belgium, the Russell-Knight in Canada...